Eating and drinking are things we do every single day, but the vocabulary available to talk about them is much richer than the obvious words we use on a regular basis. In this English vocabulary lesson, you will learn different ways to express eating and drinking in creative ways. How would you tell someone you wanted more than a snack but less than a meal? Do you know the difference between wolfing down, devouring, and scarfing down food? Watch the video to find out, and make sure to do the quiz afterwards to practice what you learned!

Thank you so much James . actually, I have benefited a lot from you because I like your teaching way . I haven’t known some words before I saw your lesson . it’s very useful indeed . keep going James and I will follow every lesson from you . warm regards

I think there is a tense error in seventh question (is so good – scarfed down). Am I right?

Saturday, May 28th 2016

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No, there is no error here. “My mom’s cooking is so good” means that it is good in general. That means that whenever she cooks, it is good. This includes the instance when the speaker “scarfed down” his plate in one minute. We could also change the sentence to say “My mom’s cooking is so good that whenever she cooks, I scarf down my plate in one minute” or something similar.

Hello James .
I have got 90 . Question 2 can have as an answer ” bite” . I don’t want a full meal , I want something small , and small is subjective enough to indicate a hamburger for example .
James I definitely need to solve when to use Ing form or infinitive form verb after a verb of perception . You wrote on the board ” I can hear you munching over here” . Why didn’t you write ” munch” instead . Yet ” hear” is a perception verb .
I listened to previous engvid videos and it still confuses me . Can I rely on you to get finaly the right explanation ?
Thank you in advance .

Hi, James. I really like the way you teach, easy to understand. Thank you.
Have a question here : The passer-by saw the (old lady) fall but he did not stop to help them.
Question is : Why ‘old lady’ and not ‘old ladies’ as the last word is ‘them’?

I have one questions about the Quiz. №7(about mom’s cooking) In the video you said that we can not say “I scarfed down mom’s soup” couse it is not polite. But in the quiz correct answer is exactly (scarfed down) i am a bit confused.

James Omg so many comments over there ,so in my opinion cool lesson about eating and the common for both eat and drink but sorry in the quiz you choose for the Mom’s cooking (scarfed down) which you said in the lesson it’s impolite to use it with Mom’s cooking >

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